Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:07 AM PST on January 7, 2016
- Top ten achievements of US Bicycle Route System in 2015 (Adventure Cycling)
- High speed rail unveils construction bids (The Hill)
- House Republicans propose a bill that would prevent class action suits against VW (Daily Kos)
- Self-driving cars won’t kill mass transit (Kill Screen)
- The four types of cyclists in the U.S. (CityLab)
- ICYMI: Five cyclist-blaming headlines and how to reframe them (Bicycling)
- Oakland eases rules on secondary units to help add density (East Bay Express)
- Not building enough housing is morally equivalent to tearing down homes (Greater Greater Washington)
- Interactive map compares carbon footprints of Bay Area neighborhoods (UC Berkeley)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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